Benj Pasek and Justin Paul definitely have one thing to sing about after the 2024 Artistic Arts Emmy Awards.
The songwriters behind The Best Showman entered the EGOT membership on Sunday, Sept. 8, profitable an Emmy for greatest authentic music and lyrics for “Which of the Pickwick Triplets Did It?” — the Solely Murders within the Constructing tune they composed alongside Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman.
“It’s clearly thrilling and really wild to consider,” Paul advised reporters after the win whereas praising Shaiman and Wittman, who gave the duo their first job in tv as composers on season 2 of Smash.
“Attending to do it alongside two of our musical heroes… is what makes it most significant,” Paul stated. “And attending to do it with a collaboration that was most likely essentially the most joyful we’ve ever had in our careers, on a TV present that’s considered one of our favourite within the historical past of tv reveals… it’s only a exceptional factor to get to have fun.”
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Representing the highest awards in tv (Emmy), music (Grammy), movie (Oscar), and theater (Tony), the EGOT is taken into account the grand slam of present enterprise — a four-of-a-kind sweep that solely the rarest of stars have been capable of obtain.
Beforehand, Pasek and Paul had gained a pair of Tony Awards for crafting the rating to Pricey Evan Hansen and producing the perfect musical A Unusual Loop; two Grammys for Pricey Evan Hansen‘s forged album and for the The Best Showman‘s compilation soundtrack; and a Oscar penning the lyrics to “Metropolis of Stars” from La La Land,
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The duo, each 39, are the 20th and twenty-first members of the illustrious EGOT listing and the second to EGOT as a workforce, after Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.
They’re the quickest folks to attain the dignity and among the youngest members of the EGOT membership — although Frozen songwriter Robert Lopez, who was additionally 39 when he gained, stays the youngest by mere months.
The complete listing of EGOT winners are as follows: Richard Rodgers (1962), Helen Hayes (1977), Rita Moreno (1977), John Gielgud (1991), Audrey Hepburn (1994), Marvin Hamlisch (1995), Jonathan Tunick (1997), Mel Brooks (2001), Mike Nichols (2001), Whoopi Goldberg (2002), Scott Rudin (2012), Lopez (2014), Webber (2018), Rice (2018), John Legend (2018), Alan Menken (2020), Jennifer Hudson (2022) and Viola Davis (2023).
Earlier this 12 months, in January, Elton John gained an Emmy for Elton John Stay: Farewell from Dodger Stadium, formally incomes him the ultimate piece of the puzzle for EGOT standing.
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Pasek and Paul had been beforehand nominated for a greatest authentic music and lyrics Emmy in 2018 for “Within the Marketplace for a Miracle,” a music they composed for A Christmas Story Stay!
At Sunday’s 2024 Artistic Arts Emmys, they had been nominated once more Sara Bareilles for Girls5eva‘s “The Medium Time”; Saturday Night time Stay‘s Eli Brueggemann, Maya Rudolph, Auguste White, Mike DiCenzo and Jake Nordwind for “Mom”; The Tattooist of Auschwitz‘s Hans Zimmer, Kara Talve, Walter Afanasieff and Charlie Midnight for “Love Will Survive”; and True Detective: Night time Nation‘s John Hawkes for “No Use.”
The 2024 Emmy Awards will air from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, Sept. 15 (at 8 p.m. ET) on ABC.
